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Incornsyucopia |
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September 13, 2011 10:00:54am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Garcia & Zabriskie |
Thanks for bringing this up LIA. I saw the film years ago when I was first getting into the Dead (having already been a huge Floyd fan for a few years at that point) and thought the music added a lot to it. The lack of relation (at least explicitly) between the Dead and Floyd that you bring up is interesting given that they were each, in many ways, the definitive and certainly longest lasting groups of their respective psychedelic music scenes, which were the two most significant ones. They make for a fascinating comparison in many ways given the very different roads they took: both heavily influenced by the Post-War avant-garde, but the Dead holding on to their dance band, improvisatory roots right till the end, whereas Floyd at an early point was moving away from its dance band, more free form beginnings towards a kind of Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, concert experience. They're already gesturing towards it in this interview from 1967:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-tSn-T5TQ. The apotheosis of this, of course, comes with their tour of The Wall in 1981 when apparently the only unscripted moments (at least according to David Gilmour) were during his solos on top of the wall during "Comfortably Numb."
However, I have this vague recollection of Garcia comparing the two groups in an interview that I read in a book in a book store years ago and I wish to this day I'd bought. (Unless of course the memory is a creation of my then very acid-fueled imagination!) It was something to the effect that the Dead were working towards a subjective psychedelic experience in comparison to Floyd's more objective variety. I may well have imagined this as I've been searching for the interview for years and haven't been able to find it again, but it is a fairly perceptive insight into the two groups' differences.
Any one know of this or have any further thoughts?
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